Talk:List of Mayan languages

Suggestion
This is looking quite good. With a little more attention, the addition of some explanatory context, cites/refs and years for the figures and maybe a location map, this could worked into a Featured List. I guess the FA nom for the main article should be cleared first, tho... anyways- nice work.--cjllw | TALK  23:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

speaker populations
Firstly, these all use period (.) as the thousands separator; while this is the case in many European countries, comma is the usual one in most countries where English is an official language. So for en: I think comma would be better.

I also wonder where these figures are sourced - they look like they have been taken from Ethnologue, but those tend to be somewhat inflated. At least they are comparable across many linguistic groups, I suppose.

72.224.120.80 02:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Major cleanup needed
Thanks to Nora England, the silly Ethnologue-based multiplication of dialects has now been cleaned up in ISO-693. See her request to ISO and, for instance, a page for one of the deleted language codes. We need to clean up this page now. It is not too easy - you have to add to all the speaker numbers and subtract from all the right rowspans. I did Chol. Here's the new list (copied and edited from ethnologue, numbers NOT valid):

Mayan (69)
 * Cholan-Tzeltalan (12)
 * Cholan (4)
 * Chol-Chontal (3)
 * Chontal, Tabasco  [chf] (Mexico)
 * Chol  [ctu] (Mexico)
 * Chorti (1)
 * Ch'orti'  [caa] (Guatemala)
 * Tzeltalan (8)
 * Tzeltal,  [tzh] (Mexico)
 * Tzotzil,  [tzo] (Mexico)
 * Huastecan (4)
 * Chicomuceltec  [cob] (Mexico)
 * Huastec  [hus] (Mexico)
 * Kanjobalan-Chujean (8)
 * Chujean (3)
 * Chuj  [cac] (Guatemala)
 * Tojolabal  [toj] (Mexico)
 * Kanjobalan (5)
 * Kanjobal-Jacaltec (4)
 * Jakalteko (Popti')  [jac] (Guatemala)
 * Q'anjob'al [kjb] (Guatemala)
 * Akateko  [knj] (Guatemala) (NOT ISO name; official name is still the outdated “western kanjobal”)
 * Mocho (1)
 * Mocho  [mhc] (Mexico)
 * Quichean-Mamean (40)
 * Greater Mamean (11)
 * Ixilan (4)
 * Awakateko  [agu] (Guatemala)
 * Ixil [ixl] (Guatemala)
 * Mamean (7)
 * Mam [mam] (Guatemala)
 * Tektiteko  [ttc] (Guatemala)
 * Greater Quichean (29)
 * Kekchi (1)
 * Q'eqchi'  [kek] (Guatemala)
 * Pocom (5)
 * Poqomam  [poc] (Guatemala)
 * Poqomchi'  [poh] (Guatemala) Quichean (20)
 * Cakchiquel (10)
 * Kaqchikel  [cak] (Guatemala)
 * Quiche-Achi (8)
 * Achi', [acr] (Guatemala)
 * K'iche'  [quc] (Guatemala)
 * Tzutujil (2)
 * Tz'utujil [tzj] (Guatemala)
 * Sacapulteco (1)
 * Sakapulteko  [quv] (Guatemala)
 * Sipacapeno (1)
 * Sipakapense  [qum] (Guatemala)
 * Uspantec (1)
 * Uspanteko  [usp] (Guatemala)
 * Yucatecan (5)
 * Mopan-Itza (2)
 * Itza'  [itz] (Guatemala)
 * Maya, Mopán  [mop] (Belize)
 * Yucatec-Lacandon (3)
 * Lacandon  [lac] (Mexico)
 * Maya, Yucatán  [yua] (Mexico)

Homunq (talk) 05:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * done. Homunq (talk) 09:48, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for that Homunq. Someone had gone thru a few of the affected language articles and cleaned up to the revised/rationalised codes. Haven't checked to see if all relevant articles were touched. --cjllw ʘ  TALK 07:47, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Bold
Why are some subgroups written in bold and others not? I can't see any explanation of this in the article. Haakon K (talk) 05:50, 20 October 2009 (UTC)